Pelatantheria insectifera (Rchb. f.) Ridl. 1896 Photo By Tony Watkinson

Flower Closeup Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name The Insect-Bearing Pelatanthera

Flower Size 5/8 [1.5 cm]

Found in Assam, Bangladesh, Eastern Himalayas, India, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam occuring in broadleaf, evergreen, lowland forests on limestone rocks and bushes as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte or lithophyte-terrestrial at elevations of 200 to 1000 meters with a scandent, branched, laterally compressed stems carrying disitchous, oblong, partly amplexicaul, thickly coriaceous, deeply channeled, keeled beneath leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an axillary, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Sarcanthus insectifer Rchb. f. 1857

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Sarcanthus insectifer; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001;

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